Andy Piper on HackDay. This guy didn't like it. I absolutely loved it. 
I built a a website (it's currently presentable, but not that usable - usability and extra features to follow).
I took some photos. I'm way too tired to post them - but I think, tomorrow, I'll be in a fit enough state only to hit 'yay' or 'nay' on 'em.
My laptop has new sticky sticky stickers.
I met some great folks - CaptSolo and danbri were there from the SemWeb community, as was Mark Birbeck (who I didn't meet, alas). And that's just wwithin the SemWeb group - I met so many people, handed out business cards, performed extremely badly in a game of werewolf and then moderated one. I also met Les Orchard (aka 0xDECAFBAD), who r0x0rz over at the d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s.
One thing I didn't imagine I was going to like but ended up adoring is Doctor Who. I haven't watched any of the new series (and, by new, I mean, like any time in the last few years) and by means that we have all collectively forgottoen, Doctor Who was broadcast for attendees to watch.
Tip: if you want to organise an event, the Hack Day model is a good one. Or BarCamp. Or BloggerCon.
Lots of space, lots of wifi, lots of power and interesting people. Although I'm tired, I'm energised at the same time. Spending time with such a wide variety of people helps you see different perspectives. And you learn much more about doing cool things (the source of money is innovation, the source of innovation is 'ooh - that'd be cool') by being around people who want to do cool things even if it's not strictly 'relevant' to the serious-minded professional PR thing. Blergh. Thoughts out of order.
Need sleep. Tired. No complaining - it's what Donovan would call a thoughtstream. A bit like Twitter but you read it in your aggregator. Oh, and I had Twitter off all weekend. I may finally be cracking my addiction to it. I don't even miss it. Who needs 'ambience' (the so-called 'Jim had to go and pick up his kids, Mary is buying dogfood' stuff) when you are in a roomful of hackers?
And if I'm now coding, perhaps I've broken one of those uncreative, 'sickness' cycles or whatever. I expect now that I'll actually have good ideas, but the technology will fail me at every opportunity it has. As Dave would say, Praise Murphy.
Still, good ideas are more important than technological success. If all you do is recreate the status quo with new twiddly bits on it, big whoop. That's why I am almost tempted to just say 'fuck it' to reading the standards mailing lists. Now that we have RDFa in XHTML 1.1, I almost couldn't care about the W3C and the WHATWG. It's like television news to me - it is interesting, like, oh, missing children or transport policy, but it's not nearly as important.
That doesn't mean I won't throw a wobbly if someone at any of these places does something stupid - as they no doubt will. 
Water, duck's back. We make mistakes.
Reduce the anger, let the creativity surge in.
It's a thoughtlog, not a work of art. Time to go and sit in my HackDay beanbag. I now want one in every colour.
